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Top 'suicide bomb specialist' Taliban commander nabbed in Swat
Islamabad, Sep.22 (ANI): Pakistani security forces have nabbed a top commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Shura Nasim alias Abu Faraj from the Charbagh region in Swat.
Sources said Faraj masterminded several suicide attacks which have rocked Pakistan in the recent past.
A close associate of the Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, Faraj used to run a terror training camp were he trained young children to carry out suicide attacks, The News reports.
It may be noted that Faraj's father Darvesh, who himself was a Taliban commander, surrendered before the troops a few days back. (ANI)
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Story first published: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 11:04 [IST]